Aphrodite is the goddess of love, beauty and fertility. She was also protectress of the sailors.
Cronus threw severed genitals into the ocean which began to churn and foam and from the sea foam arose Aphrodite.
She is the daughter of Zeus and Dione. Zeus the supreme god of the Olympians, he is the youngest son.
When she was born she was very beautiful. no one could resist her so the Trojan prince pairs was asked to judge he picked her over Hera and Athena so when she got older Zeus thought that the gods would fight over her so he married her off to Hephaestus. the god of fire or smiths who also had deformed legs.
Even though she was married she had many lovers including Ares who was the god of war. Anchises who was the legendary Trojan warrior. Adonis and Hermes the messenger.
She had children with these men witch included Aeneas (by Anchises); Harmonia (by Ares); Eros (by Ares or Hermes); Hermaphroditus (by Hermes)
In the Trojan war she intervened to save her sons Aneaes life a greek hero who was going to kill her son attached wounding her on the wrist with his spear and causing the ichor to flow. (Ichor is what immortals have in the place of blood.)
She defended cities such as Cornith then the adopted her as there patroness.
Aphrodite saves Paris when he is about to be killed in single combat by Menelaus. The goddess wraps him in a mist and spirits him away, setting him down in his own bedroom in Troy.
She is also know as "the Cyprian", and many of her attributes may have come from Asia via Cyprus (and Cythera) in Mycenaean times.
Aphrodite who was also a strong fighter
aphrodite the godess of beauty
Aphrodites brid wich is the dove wich symblolizes peace
Aphrodite arose form the sea she was a whole bunch of organs combined
I chose the color pink because Aphrodite is the goddess of beauty.
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I chose the color pink because Aphrodite is the goddess of beauty.